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Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

TechCrunch

We profiled the two-year-old company last year when it raised $25 million in Series A funds, led by Ribbit Capital. Now Balance is back with $56 million in Series B funding, this time led by Forerunner. Ribbit, as well as other existing investors Lightspeed Ventures, Avid Ventures, Upwest and Jibe, also participated in the Series B. “We

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Valued at $50M, Body404 wants to bring Chinese indie brands to the world

TechCrunch

Its co-founder and CEO Jeff Zhang, a serial entrepreneur who ran an IDG-backed flash sales app , also wants to connect boutique designer brands from other countries to China’s well-oiled supply chains — which is often cited as a key ingredient to Shein’s success. Most of the company’s customers come from the U.S.

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Block Party, a tool to combat online harassment, raises a $4.8M seed

TechCrunch

As a non-paying subscriber, you can access tools like “moderate filters,” which mutes accounts that are more likely to be harassing, like newly created accounts with few followers and no profile picture. So, if Twitter isn’t able to dedicate as many resources to safety as it would like, at least Block Party can.

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Real-time in-vehicle data and AI technologies provide the key to predictive maintenance

Capgemini

Jeff Lemmer, vice president and CIO at Ford Motor Company, explains in the report that AI isn’t just important to the high-profile work of developing autonomous cars, it is also vital to the future of all new vehicles. “Not He adds that Ford is already using AI to identify supply chain risk and for in-vehicle predictive maintenance.

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2023 Him For Her And Crunchbase Study Of Gender Diversity On Private Company Boards

Crunchbase News

To ensure that each company’s board profile was current, we included only companies that publish their board of directors on their website. We then referenced company website data, Crunchbase profiles and other publicly available information to characterize the board members. Fewer women are boardroom “Only’s.”

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FSI Member Spotlight Episode #18 – Jeff Horvath

Praxent

In a recent FSI Member Spotlight, Praxent had the opportunity to meet with Jeff Horvath, CEO & Co-Founder at DigiPli Inc., Jeff Horvath. Jeff Horvath – And this is the one that I would say is applicable to almost every fintech, especially in a B2C space. Tim Hamilton. But tell us about the founding story. Before we do.

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Betting on China’s driverless future, Toyota, Bosch, Daimler jump on board Momenta’s $500M round

TechCrunch

“It works like a flywheel,” Cao said, using a tech industry jargon first popularized by Jeff Bezos to explain Amazon’s growth. Momenta has kept a quiet public profile since its inception and rarely talked about its customers except for its partnership with Toyota on high-definition maps , which predated the investment.

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